Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — ELEPHANT KILLS KEEPER [ARTICLE]

ELEPHANT KILLS KEEPER

Forty Bullets Fired Into Pachyderm to Subdue Frenzied Beast. Des Moines, la., April 9.—“ Tom,” an elephant in the winter quarters of a circus here, suddenly ran amuck, and seizing his keeper, Charles Bellew, hurled him high into the air and then trampled him to death. The Infuriated beast then ran through the animal park, uprooted small trees, destroyed three circus wagons and demolished a bridge across a lagoon. Forty bullets were fired into the beast before it was subdued.